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‘Athol Gill – teacher, community builder, advocate of justice, peacemaker, Christian gadfly! When he died in 1992, the Australian church lost a creatively subversive native son who combined a tough-minded vision of radical discipleship with tender-hearted compassion for those who Athol described as ‘society’s nobodies’. As is clear from the content of each page in this volume, all contributors learned something pivotal from their association with Athol Gill. Not everyone shared his fanatical support for Carlton Football Club, and no one considers that he spoke the definitive word on any theological or social issue. Yet all recognise that he made an extraordinary contribution to the life of the church in Australia and beyond – as visionary, community leader, biblical scholar and agent of social justice in the prophetic tradition. Editor, David Neville, is Lecturer in New Testament at St Mark’s National Theological Centre in Canberra and Charles Sturt University. He is author of two books on the synoptic gospels.’
